“What is ‘righteousness,’ class?”

Not many of us went to that school!Every parent wants to see it in a child. Every child knows when his parent is righteousness-deficient.

Righteousness . . . is the being better than we are. Righteousness is honesty for its own sake. Righteousness is hoping where others only wish.

Righteousness is the glory of work and the safeguard of all our play, our leisure and our loves. It is living every moment within an eternal perspective. Righteousness is having in ourselves that which belongs to God alone, and having it rightfully.

Biblically, we know (although we seldom remember it in context at all) that righteousness is believing God. Now we can be honest, even if our honesty results in loss; we can win no matter how often we lose. We obtain what others never lay eyes upon.

There is a work for us in the Kingdom, and we were given it by the King and Lord thereof . . . we are assigned to righteousness, and how precious it is within these Cor Unum walls that what is asked of us is that we believe in the God Who loves us unto the sacrifice of His own Son. Indeed, this is our work here, to believe in the One Whom the Father has sent. (John 6:29)

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